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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

USS Bingham (LPA-225)exUSS Bingham (APA-225) (1944 - 1969)

NPRMAwards, Citations and Campaign RibbonsPrecedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

During World War II Bingham was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:TransRon Twenty-four, COMO. E. L. Short USNR;TransDiv Seventy-One, CAPT. W. P. Davis USN (17) and participated in the following campaign:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign

Campaign and Dates

Okinawa Gunto operationAssault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 24 to 30 June 1945

Following World War II USS Bingham was assigned to Occupation service from 10 to 22 September 1945

Decommissioned, 17 June 1946, at Norfolk, VA.

Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 18 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946

Redesignated Amphibious Transport(LPA-225), 1 January 1969

Title transfer to the Maritime Administration from the Navy, in May 1975

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 September 1983, to Aguilar Y. Peris S. A., Spain. Removed 14 October 1983